Top 46 Finkel Quotes
#1. Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man
Michael Finkel
#2. Congratulations for conquering PTSD. And now you're fucked.
David Finkel
#3. the true solitary does not seek himself, but loses himself.
Michael Finkel
#4. I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives. And I wondered then if Knight's journey was to seek it. But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing. It's about learning to live with the missing parts.
Michael Finkel
#5. It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emotions? Does the army teach us how to deal with a friend bleeding out in front of you? No.
David Finkel
#6. There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said.
Michael Finkel
#7. Everywhere on this day, the after-war continues, as eternally as war itself,
David Finkel
#8. Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets.
Michael Finkel
#9. The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize," she said. "The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.
Michael Finkel
#11. I have taken the liberty of quoting at length throughout from the gospels of the Emperor penguins. To them I owe a special debt of gratitude for their remarkable patience.
Donald Finkel
#12. That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.
Michael Finkel
#13. I'm insanely proud of every single one of my credits until the people who created the shows are dead.
Dave Finkel
#14. A standard sitcom ... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each other, and all these people living with each other. It's like, okay, we hooked them up in episode 15, how do we bust that, how do we find a new kernel in it?
Dave Finkel
#15. I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that perhaps, after all, there is more life in me than in you.
Michael Finkel
#16. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.
Michael Finkel
#17. I'm not used to seeing people's faces. There's too much information there. Aren't you aware of it? Too much, too fast.
Michael Finkel
#18. The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of human interactions was so complex.
Michael Finkel
#19. And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph?
Michael Finkel
#20. Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...
Michael Finkel
#21. The thought that the bullet has already been fired at each of us and it is only a matter of time when it will hit, brings comfort to some and terror to others.
David Finkel
#22. Passion must be subject to reason; emotions lead one astray. "There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain.
Michael Finkel
#23. To be a soldier in combat was to fall in love constantly,
David Finkel
#24. He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him.
Michael Finkel
#25. The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible,' he said.
Michael Finkel
#26. His facial hair served not just as a calendar but also as a mask, absorbing the stares of others while allowing him a little privacy in plain sight. "I can hide behind it, I can play to stereotypes and assumptions. One of the benefits of being labeled a hermit is that it permits me strange behavior.
Michael Finkel
#27. Conversations between people can move like tennis games, swift and unpredictable. There are constant subtle visual and verbal cues, there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone. Everyone occasionally fumbles an encounter, a victim of social clumsiness. It's part of being human.
Michael Finkel
#28. Still, the ten days were enough for me to see, as if peering over the edge of a well, that silence could be mystical, and that if you dared, diving fully into your inner depths might be both profound and disturbing.
Michael Finkel
#29. He never bothered listening to sports; the bored him, every one of them.
Michael Finkel
#30. He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nearly bath warm. "I'd stretch out in the water, " he said, "and lie flat on my back, and look at the stars.
Michael Finkel
#31. The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea.
Michael Finkel
#32. This field of activity generated a vast literature of carefully assembled one-line omens on this pattern: If A happened, B will happen. Here the sought-for outcome B, known as the apodosis, is deemed to be the consequence of an observed phenomenon, the protasis A. One
Irving Finkel
#33. He knew America, and even though he hadn't been there in fifteen years, he knew what its soldiers liked because of what one of them had written on the door of a metal locker that was in the room he'd been given to live in. "Sex, potato soup, and Johnny Cash," it said.
David Finkel
#34. And a hero isn't someone who doesn't feel fear, they're someone who in spite of their fear does the right thing and really risks their own safety,
David Finkel
#35. Much of online dating, Finkel and company argued, is based on the faulty notion that the kind of information we can see in a profile is actually useful in determining whether that person would make a good partner.
Aziz Ansari
#36. He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.
David Finkel
#37. He mentioned that he didn't like Jack Kerouac either, but this wasn't quite true. "I don't like people who like Jack Kerouac," he clarified.
Michael Finkel
#38. Drew, a friend helping Loren in her research, "...This may be the most important class I've never paid for nor received credit hours for taking. Let's lift our glasses to Professor Finkel!
Kimberly Loving Ross
#39. To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise
David Finkel
#40. I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you.
Dave Finkel
#41. Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought?
David Finkel
#42. I mean this sincerely ... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reason, whenever 'Charles in Charge' was on, I couldn't not watch it. I didn't like it and I didn't hate it. I just couldn't not watch.
Dave Finkel
#44. But you can gift wrap a piece of shit and it's still a piece of shit.
David Finkel
#45. Knight seemed to weigh the precision of every word he used, careful as a poet. Even his handwritten letters had gone through at least one draft, he said, mostly to remove unnecessary insults. Only necessary ones remained.
Michael Finkel
#46. The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that "no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.
Michael Finkel
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